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mis-shoe

mis-shoe verb: to shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong.

Verb

mis-shoe (third-person singular simple present mis-shoes, present participle mis-shoeing, simple past and past participle mis-shod or mis-shoed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong
    • “[...] Bun pays Byron a coupla grand to mis-shoe somebody else's pony.” I stuck my spoon in my peppery soup. “Why would he do that?” “This pony belongs to another customer of mine, Charlie Bun's top rival in the racing biz.2000, Philip Lawson, Muskrat Courage
    • The other had been mis-shod, causing the horse to favor that leg slightly.2001, Jake Logan, Slocum 265

Forms of mis-shoe

third-person singular presentmis-shoes
present participlemis-shoeing
past participlemis-shod
pastmis-shod
past participlemis-shoed
pastmis-shoed
alternative formmisshoe

Origin of mis-shoe

From mis- + shoe.

Questions about mis-shoe

What does mis-shoe mean?
Mis-shoe means to shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong.
What part of speech is mis-shoe?
Mis-shoe is a verb.
What is the past tense of mis-shoe?
The past tense of mis-shoe is mis-shod.

Words near mis-shoe in the dictionary

  1. mis-housed
  2. mis-pass
  3. mis-sang
  4. mis-sell
  5. mis-shapen
  6. mis-shoe
  7. mis-shunt
  8. mis-shunts
  9. mis-sing
  10. mis-singing
  11. mis-sings

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